Disclamed.
Song
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"The burnt child dreads the fire."
-Ben Jonson
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I helped him. I helped his uncle. My family fed them and gave them comfort and warmth, if only for a day...and they were Fire Nation. I'll admit, he and his uncle both were banished citizens, but they were from the royal court, both of them previously having the title of the Crown Prince at some point in their life.
And I helped them.
I'd never felt so repulsed in my life when I saw the face of the new Fire Lord. Of course, I was glad that that horrid century-old war was finally over and done with and that there was peace...but I was only human and I was bitter. I was angry and I was betrayed. I hear, from rumors, that people who'd associated with Fire Lord Zuko always felt that way at least once around him. Even when I didn't know he was a firebender, he betrayed me, stealing my ostrich horse. I could forgive him for that, and I did, but once I found out who he really was, the anger came back and I found all the more reason to despise him.
My mother thinks I'm being ridiculous, but she of all people should understand! We had housed an enemy while they were enemies. She fed them and they stole our ostrich horse.
And now he was Fire Lord and friends with the Avatar, whom I hear he hunted for quite a while. What was it, three years? He sought out to destroy the one glare of hope this world had for three years. How could he just turn around and think he could redeem himself from all the terrible things his family and his nation had done to everyone? To me? To my family?
I can never trust him. I just can't. My mother says he's doing good to the world and the Fire Nation Islands, that they're slowly repenting themselves of every evil deed the previous Fire Lord had done. But how could anyone think that he's doing good? Don't they remember? Don't they remember what he did? Doesn't my mom remember?
Doesn't she?
He came to us, and we accepted them with open arms, and then he betrays us, me, by stealing after we generously gave. And then, I find that he had betrayed us yet a second time by being of the Fire Nation.
I hate him. I hate him. Everytime I see a poster of his face and scar I want to throw up. I can never forgive what they did to me, what he did to me. Everyone thinks I'm being irrational but they don't see like I do. They don't get it.
Fire Lord Zuko may have helped the Avatar learn firebending and win the war...but I can't see the worth. I can't help but feel suspicious of him. He's not good. He's not good, at all.
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Hmmm, don't know if anyone remembers Song but she was that one chick who healed Iroh from that white jade or something. And then she got ostrich-horsejacked by Zuko. Aahahha. She seems a bitter girl. Well, not really, but I don't know. Could she have accepted that she had openly accepted the future Fire Lord while the Fire Nation was still, you know, evil? I'd be kinda disturbed. Not hateful, just disturbed. Just my interpretation. She's a very vague character and I like to think that everyone has a dark side...yes, even Aang? Maybe in the Avatar State XP
And I know this is written in a very clipped and redundant manner, and I apologize if clipped and redundant things annoy you, but it's supposed to be a rant of sorts, like a monologue. I don't how everyone thinks, but when I think to myself, it's clipped and repetitive. Very. And there's desperation in it, too. She wants people to understand where she's coming from and she wants to justify her indignation towards Zuko. I'm beginning to think that maybe this could work for Katara as well. LOL. Just take some parts out and add some others and then set this to the time when Zuko sought out Team Avatar at the Western Air Temple and yays! Katara!Rant.
To any and all Song fans, I'm sorry she sounds like such a bitch. REALLY!
Anyways, I hope you liked, enjoyed, and delighted in this little look into a double-side character's life and mind. They need more love.
All right! Review and tell me what you liked, didn't, any praise or things to edit that you caught while reading :) They're much appreciated!
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